Pear wastes

Food-processing wastes are often used as food for animals. Corn gluten meal, left from the preparation of high-fructose corn syrup, can be used as food for fish in aquaculture.284 Dietary fiber for consumption by humans can be recovered from pear and kiwi wastes.285 Tomato skins can be removed by steam and abrasion in a process that eliminates the traditional use of sodium hydroxide for peeling. The waste can be fed to animals. Brewer s spent grain has been used to make bread.286... 

Bruised or damaged fruit can not be made attractive, and its use involves heavy waste. The proper handling of the fruit is therefore very important. Apricots, peaches, pears, etc., should be handled in shallow boxes which will not hold more than a bushel and will not admit of more than three or four layers of fruit. The top should be protected with cleats, so that one box can be set upon another without touching the fruit, thus insuring some ventilation. The email fruits-=-strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and loganberries—are handled almost exclusively in chests, which are illustrated in detail in Plate II. The California packers have developed this part of the business to a... 

Install a composting toilet, which uses no water. Rather, it allows human wastes to decompose aerobically as air is vented over the waste, which is buried in pear moss. Dried, odor-free compost is removed every few months and is useful as a garden fertilizer. 

Lira-Ortiz, A. L., Resendiz-Vega, E, Rios-Leal, E., Contreras-Esquivel, J. C., Chavarria-Hernandez, N., Vargas-Torres, A, and Rodriguez-Hernandez, A. I. (2014). Pectins from waste of prickly pear fruits (Opuntia albicarpa Scheinvar "Reyna") Chemical and rheological properties. Food HydrocoIIoids, 37(0), 93-99. 

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